For sale: NY mansion of 'Keeping up with the Joneses' fame
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September 22, 2016
RHINEBECK, N.Y. (AP, posted Sept. 21, 2016) — A dilapidated mansion in New York believed to have inspired the phrase "Keeping up with the Joneses" is on the auction block.
The Poughkeepsie Journal reports (http://pojonews.co/2cZma45 ) the 24-room Wyndclyffe Castle will be auctioned Wednesday.
The mansion was built in 1853 in Rhinebeck as the country house of Manhattan socialite Elizabeth Schermerhorn Jones, a member of a wealthy family and aunt of American novelist Edith Wharton. The property's elegance is said to have prompted owners of nearby Hudson Valley estates to build even bigger mansio...
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